Where is the Search Bar for the Discover Section

[Scayth]

There used to be a spot where you could easily type in a keyword in order to find certain wallpapers that align with what you're searching for. But I recently went through the update, and the discover section no longer has a search bar.
So is one just suppose to constantly scroll and pray for the wallpaper type they want to appear. Or is there a way to actually utilize a search function in the discover section that I am just not seeing.
If they truly did remove the search bar from that section for WHATEVER reason. I would like to be FULLY reimbursed for the money I spent to purchase this program. Because, that is a completely INANE to remove.
That's like all internet browsers removing their URL bar. And placing all websites on a single page that can only constantly scroll down. "Oh you want Youtube, you gotta scroll down for 45 minutes to get to the website."
Please, someone tell me I am just losing my marbels and there is a way.

[Flaming Ninja]

Having the same issue, literally just no search bar at all. Maybe we minimized it somehow? Hoping someone finds an answer.

[Tim]

Discover is not meant for searching, it's just for scrolling and voting. If you would like to search for specific categories of wallpapers, use the Workshop search tab in Wallpaper Engine next to the Discover tab.

[Midnight]

WTF? There is almost nothing in the search bar under workhop. Please. Add. Back. The. BAR!

[Tim]

Nothing was removed from the Workshop tab, the search is still very extensive. Did you maybe hide the filters? You can use the "Filter results" button to show all filter options.

[Diego]

Originally posted by ultio:

Discover is not meant for searching, it's just for scrolling and voting. If you would like to search for specific categories of wallpapers, use the Workshop search tab in Wallpaper Engine next to the Discover tab.

Wow... that's not intuitive at all, man... if I'm looking for new wallpapers I'd look for "Discover" section, not for "Workshop"

[Biohazard]

The way discover works doesn't allow for searching and the search system has a huge amount of additional filter options that simply don't work for discover at all.

There are two blinking messages that the program will keep showing until you clicked both the tabs, so you learn about both and have to decide whether you want more control or just quickly find something nice without having to filter out all the things you don't want first.

On Steam the equivalent function is also called 'Workshop', it's right on this page if you scroll up.

[maxkool]

So whether I'm in the Discover or Workshop tabs, the content is the same, but Discover is just a page of recommendations while Workshop has a Filter/Search function? Is this correct? Either way, this UX is very counter-intuitive.

[Biohazard]

Yes.

I have to make do with what the Steam backend provides and work around that. Putting a search bar into discover to change the 'mode' like on Netflix or so does not cut it because some people want to browse the full list by specifying tags only or just access one of the various queries directly.

Feel free to make a suggestion but I can't think of any improvements without cutting away features. Some people don't want to deal with the complex search function, that's why "discover" was added in the first place.

[maxkool]

Well, just communicate in the UI that there's the same content on both tabs. You don't need to change anything functionally, in fact, even just renaming "Workshop" to "Search" would help. People think there's no search function because they don't realize (as I didn't) that both tabs allow you to browse the same content but in different ways. I thought the "main" content was under Discover and had no search function, while the Workshop content was on the second tab!

[Biohazard]

Originally posted by maxkool:

even just renaming "Workshop" to "Search" would help.

Well, I considered this exact change beforehand but there would have been a lot more complaints from people not finding what they were used to then, since the button wouldn't only have been moved by one element, it would have been renamed on top of that.

On Steam the same functionality is called 'Workshop' too, so it isn't inherently unintuitive to use that label. I also thought calling it 'Search' doesn't communicate that it is Workshop only - not for searching your PC or installed files if you get what I mean, so it solves one problem but causes another. And then calling it 'Seach Workshop' is taking too much space, specifically considering the min size of the window, I tried the various labels out. So yeah, I put a lot of time into considering other options before I settled on keeping this specific wording.

In the end there is no way I can act that will work out 100% for every single person without exception, so I judged this solution would be the one affecting the least number of people. And ultimately it would be better to merge both functions since that would just be nicer, but like I said, I can't see how to do that yet since they are just too different.